【058 Thousand Buddha Cliff】

The statues of the Thousand Buddha Cliffs began in the Northern Wei Dynasty and lasted for nearly 1,500 years. On the cliffs that were 45 meters high and more than 200 meters long from north to south, there were niches covered with statues and caves, which were stacked thirteen layers, as dense as a hive. According to the inscription of the fourth year of Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty (1854), the statues of the cliffs reached "17,000 strange". Unfortunately, when the Sichuan-Shaanxi Highway was built in 1935, more than half of the statues were destroyed. There are only more than 400 niches and caves and more than 7,000 large and large bodies. The statues of the cliffs are made of Dayun Cave.

The center is divided into two sections. The southern section of the niche caves include: the Big Buddha Cave, the Lotus Cave, the Muni Pavilion, the Thousand Buddha Cave, the Sleeping Buddha Cave, the Multi-Treasure Buddha Cave, the Guide Buddha Cave, the Offering Man's Cave, the Dragon Buddha, the Ruyi Wheel Guanyin, the Single Buddha Cave, etc.; the northern section of the niche caves include: the Three-time Buddha Cave, the Worry-Ware Tree Cave, the Maitreya Buddha Cave, the Three-body Buddha Cave, the Journey-Walking Monk Cave, the Bodhi statue cave, the Kita-Lethal Man Cave, the Ksitigarbha King Kan, the Lishi Niche, the Lusana Buddha Cave, the Eleven-sided Guanyin Cave, the Amitabha Buddha Cave, the Flying Sky Cave, the Tibetan Buddha Cave of the Qing Dynasty, etc.

Yun Cave is located in the center of Thousand Buddha Cliffs, with the largest scale. A total of 234 statues are made, and there are 148 statues of Lotus Guanyin carved on both sides of the left and right walls. A large Buddha in the middle of the cave is Maitreya Buddha. It is said that this Maitreya Buddha is the incarnation of Wu Zetian. When Wu Zetian officially ascended the throne in the first year of Tianshu (690 AD), when Wu Zetian officially ascended the throne, twelve monks including Faming monk Xue Huaiyi, Baima Temple, wrote the "Dayun Sutra" to present it to Wu Zetian. In the "Dayun Sutra", Wu Zetian was called Wu Zetian.

It was the birth of Maitreya Buddha, and he should be the emperor instead of Li Tang. After reading it, Wu Zetian was overjoyed and wrote the preface and promulgated it all over the world. He ordered all states to build Dayun Temple to collect the "Dayun Sutra". Because Wu Zetian was born in Lizhou, local people built Dayun Cave on Qianfo Cliff, and carved this statue of Maitreya Buddha and the two saints in the back niche - Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian. According to Chinese tradition, men should be left and women should be right, and the arrangement of the two saints is left and men should be left and men should be left and women should be left and women should be lower, which reflects the designer's clever idea.

After the reform and opening up, Yangping County Cultural Relics Management Office built and improved the cliff pavilion walkway, with steps to climb, which can access various niches and caves.

The five-kilometer journey was completed in a blink of an eye. Although the two buses were a little old and not as powerful as the new one, they didn't take much time. When they arrived in front of Qianfo Cliff, Xiao Yitian led everyone out of the bus. Qianfo Cliff does not need to spend money to visit. In another year, it will be time to collect tickets in 1990.

"Everyone pay attention to safety, don't go to places without guardrails. Okay, let's move freely!" Xiao Yitian issued a simple order, and everyone scattered and ran towards the stairs.

In addition to Nan Nan, there are also his aunt's daughter Li Sijie, who has the same name as Nan Nan's mother Zhao Sijie. There are two other people, both of his classmates, one is Li Haotian and the other is Zhu Juntian. He himself is known as the three kings of Beijie Primary School. Li Haotian and Zhu Juntian were also Xiao Yitian's good friends, or best friends in his lifetime. The three of them monopolized the top three, and they were all in the same class from elementary school to high school, and they did not separate until they went to college.

Of course, compared with the previous life, Xiao Yitian became a genius in the eyes of everyone after rebirth, so his classmates around him felt a little inferior in front of him, so Li Haotian and Zhu Juntian were not close to him, and they were far from as close as in the previous life. This made Xiao Yitian feel a little regretful, but it was just a little regretful. Everyone has their own experience. Since they are reborn, let it go naturally.

"Let's go, let's go up and take a walk." Xiao Yitian waved his hand and pulled his sister Li Sijie to the stairs first. At this time, the others had long run away without anyone else.

"Brother Tian, ​​have you ever counted the Buddha statues here?" Zhu Juntian was not very physically healthy. He started to breathe heavily after climbing a hundred steps. He pulled Xiao Yitian's clothes and moved upwards.

Xiao Yitian turned around and looked at him, "Those are legends. We cannot completely disbelief or completely believe the legendary things, so I have never counted them." The legend he mentioned was a small story related to the Qianfo Cliff in front of him.

According to legend, a long time ago, there was a dragon in Yangping, which often caused waves to stir up the floods and floods for years. The water in the Jialing River also used its power to harm the people. All living beings suffer unspeakable, and a desolate radius of hundreds of miles.

One day, the immortal master Lu Ban and his disciple Zhao Sheng came here. They met a green ox and knelt down to mourn, asking the immortal master to save the people. Lu Ban happily agreed. In order to save the people from water and fire, and in the other to take the school to learn, he made an appointment to build Buddha statues on the cliffs on both sides of the Jialing River, with the crocodile croaking in the sky. Zhao Sheng had already mastered the essence of his master's skills, and he was young and quick, and he had pinched the Buddha statue while walking. Before he knew it, he had created more than 500 Buddhas. He realized that he was sure to win.

He was very proud. Seeing that it was still early, his childlike innocence was rising again, and he wanted to make a joke about his master, so he rushed to the top of a mountain opposite the river to learn the rooster crowing. After Lu Ban heard the rooster crowing, he stopped and waited for his disciple to come and meet. After Zhao Sheng rushed over, he wanted to laugh at his master, but he did not expect that he could count how many Buddha statues his master had made. He was so dizzy that he had no result, so he had to bow his head and admit defeat.

The master and disciple practiced the method by the river after dawn the next day, using two cliffs carved with Buddha statues to hold the evil dragon at the bottom of the river, let it guard the Jialing River, and passed on the decree that as long as someone could count the Buddha statues on the cliff, the dragon in the river would appear to satisfy his wish.

Xiao Yitian actually didn't believe this legend. He didn't believe that Lu Ban had such strength, but he just didn't believe that Lu Dada, who was a Taoist immortal, would sculpt Buddha statues without any trouble - the two were completely in the same system!

In fact, the Qianfo Cliff has nothing to say about, it is nothing more than a bunch of Buddha statues, of varying sizes and postures. Like other parts of the country, the Qianfo Cliff also suffered great losses during the Cultural and Rebellion period, and most of the heads of the Buddha statues were destroyed. Now it seems that they are really broken.

Although he was not interested, Xiao Yitian still patiently accompanied everyone, holding seven-year-old Li Sijie in one hand. He explained the various legends about this place and various knowledge about Buddhism in a soft voice. He had studied all kinds of religions in the world in his previous life, and was familiar with these small problems.

Because Zhu Juntian was exhausted, he sat down halfway through the stroll. Xiao Yitian looked at it and there seemed to be few of the people who were traveling with him in good health. No wonder the children in the city were always unable to compare with the children in the countryside. There were too many steel and concrete places in the city, and there were too few places for children to run wildly. And those children born in the countryside sometimes had to walk dozens of miles of mountain roads back and forth in order to go to school. Think about it, if you have to go so far every day, can you not be physically strong?
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